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Luffy and crew help ace defeat blackbreard and crew...hence...gettin in whitebeards good books, and a posible meeting of thanks or congradulations, which might also happen as shanks arrives to see WhiteB....BIG happy reunion !!!

Getting a little more back on topic why has that policeman from a totally different ocean nominating blackbeard to be a shickibukai???

Luffite is really cool, thinkin of him sneakin into the probably best guarded place on earth, so easy, and kept his cool facing all those worlds most frightening persons...
he definitely have guts! or maybe he is good is enough to fight them!
Blackbeard and crew are definitely good enough to become Shichibukai, they seem a lot better then Crocodile and Baroque

Well that now makes blackbeard sound even more powerful and a better candidate for the shickibukai.
If Luffite has the balls or is strong enough just to turn up at the meeting at stand up to them, and he's worrking under blackbeard....that says even more for him.

In recent chapters it's been discovered that the mark on Shank's eye was caused by Blackbeard. And I think it goes without saying thats not a scratch that a human would make. It seems to me that Blackbeard has some kind of zoan fruit power, and I'm willing to bet that his power turns him into a bear.

I don't know if this thread has been done or talked about before so please bear with me. (no pun intended...ok maybe just a little.)

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Ya know, when a man works hard his entire life enduring hundreds of ladies, many of whom he does not even remember you'd like to think that at the end of the day he will be given a lot of money, without having had to earn it. -Leon Phelps

I did bring this up in one of the chapter threads, didn't go anywhere though...

And while Zoan is a definate possibility, i kinda just went with him using maybe a set of claws as weapons. Not only would metal claws seem stronger and sharper than animal claws, if the claws are made of seastone, it would help explain why a logia like Ace might loose against Blackbeard... sure we don't know how that fight went, but my money is on blackbeard.

grant it, i'm sure if claws are really blackbeards type of weapon... but also didn't picture a naginata for whitebeard either...

Though i won't rule out Zoan as a possibility... Even when blackbeard's ship was destroyed when the strawhats were going to skypeia, i don't think we ever got the chance to see if he could swim or not...

sharpshooter that can hoot down birds flying far away.
champion that is very strong.
doctor that gives poisonous apples to strangers.
and this guy that went to marines to ask about shichibukai possition for blackbeard

If Blackbeard did have a zoan fruit ability, the bear idea definitely would fit his persona.
There's no way Ace can win against Blackbeard, since it's obvious that Luffy will be fighting him in the next arc (the main characters always takes on the major villians). Blackbeard gave Shanks the scar way back when Luffy was still a kid, and when Shanks was dueling Mihawk, etc. I'm sure BB has gotten stronger over the years, to the extent where Gear 4 - 5 may need to invented (Don't the Gears look like DBZ - Goku's Kay-o-Kens?). It will be interesting if Blackbeard takes Ace as a hostage to lure Luffy, but I don't know if he knows their relation...

yes it's a big possibility that blackbeard is a df user. i still doubt he could give shanks that scar, him being just a regular pirate (no df ability). he's got to have one to be able to give shanks that scar... i tell ya

If Blackbeard did have a zoan fruit ability, the bear idea definitely would fit his persona.
There's no way Ace can win against Blackbeard, since it's obvious that Luffy will be fighting him in the next arc (the main characters always takes on the major villians). Blackbeard gave Shanks the scar way back when Luffy was still a kid, and when Shanks was dueling Mihawk, etc. I'm sure BB has gotten stronger over the years, to the extent where Gear 4 - 5 may need to invented (Don't the Gears look like DBZ - Goku's Kay-o-Kens?). It will be interesting if Blackbeard takes Ace as a hostage to lure Luffy, but I don't know if he knows their relation...

If Blackbeard did have a zoan fruit ability, the bear idea definitely would fit his persona.
There's no way Ace can win against Blackbeard, since it's obvious that Luffy will be fighting him in the next arc (the main characters always takes on the major villians). Blackbeard gave Shanks the scar way back when Luffy was still a kid, and when Shanks was dueling Mihawk, etc. I'm sure BB has gotten stronger over the years, to the extent where Gear 4 - 5 may need to invented (Don't the Gears look like DBZ - Goku's Kay-o-Kens?). It will be interesting if Blackbeard takes Ace as a hostage to lure Luffy, but I don't know if he knows their relation...

Seem to be a shortage of villians in this one, too bad there aren't any more in Blackbead crew. Maybe Nami, Robin and Franky gets capture or something...

Personally, I think its more likely that Luffy is going to be fighting Jimbei in the next arc. I know we're kinda caught in between two villains here, but I'm sure Luffy's going to fight Jimbei first and then Blackbeard.

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Ya know, when a man works hard his entire life enduring hundreds of ladies, many of whom he does not even remember you'd like to think that at the end of the day he will be given a lot of money, without having had to earn it. -Leon Phelps

Fact is, if Blackbeard beat Ace, his entire ambition for targetting Luffy will be quenched. We saw his personality when he was first eintroduced, and he's not a total bad apple. So with that in mind, not beating Ace could mean a chase is on, with Smoker, Blackbeard and possibly Buggy all in the chase, leaving room to fight Jimbei or who ever is our badass in the coming arc. Otherwise, no Blackbeard in the race, and who ever is destined to be the next villain will be coming up.

Fact is, if Blackbeard beat Ace, his entire ambition for targetting Luffy will be quenched. We saw his personality when he was first eintroduced, and he's not a total bad apple. So with that in mind, not beating Ace could mean a chase is on, with Smoker, Blackbeard and possibly Buggy all in the chase, leaving room to fight Jimbei or who ever is our badass in the coming arc. Otherwise, no Blackbeard in the race, and who ever is destined to be the next villain will be coming up.

I doubt Blackbeard is a good guy, like Shanks said, he was hiding behind WhiteBeard plotting to gain power, that sounds like a two-face character to me... besides you can't be good if you kill a Nakama.

being not a total bad aple doesnt make him a virtuoso either. At the same time though, he is not masterminding subversive actions against others, nor is he without a personal sence of morality.

He choose as his current Nakama surely some that share ideals with his own. The Doctor is a great person to point out in this case, as he is first introduced handing out apples to random people. Sure we know that they held the possibility to kill those that ate them, however he had normal apples available as well, meaning that he wasent trying to kill anyone, but just to test people. This may not be a normal process of thought, but it is a rather logical one. You want to find those who are fated to something big, you go to where those sorts will likely gather (Jaya was a Pirate haven), and you go about finding those in all sorts of unorthodox methods. Remember also, his captain needed to find someone to make a name for himself off of.

I doubt Blackbeard is a good guy, like Shanks said, he was hiding behind WhiteBeard plotting to gain power, that sounds like a two-face character to me... besides you can't be good if you kill a Nakama.

Well, Whitebeard does not seem like a nice fellow either. Maybe, just maybe someone set Blackbeard up the bomb.

...in other words, we don't know what happened with that "killed nakama." We haven't heard Blackbeard's side of the story yet. Why would Blackbeard kill a nakama? What would have been the point of leaving Whitebeard? It is still too early to conclude anything with the information that we have.

Seriously guys, don't trust a guy with a Swastika in his flag. Can't have any more foreshadowing than that.

Blackbeard is on of those real pirates we've been seeing. He's been going around and pillaging town and stuff. Was surprising that he gave Shanks the wound. Blackbeard doesn't strike me the type to be sporting a Logia fruit that can surpass Ace, but a Zoan wouldn't help him against Ace still.

I hope Luffy doesn't take on Jimbei yet, he's the Next Shicibukai member I'm dying to c. If Arlong was that physically strong, and Tom (hello, an enitre ship, far bigger than him!!), who really wasn't a fighter himself was so incredibly strong, u can imagine the strength of a Great White. he should be a later villian but we'll c.

Fact is, if Blackbeard beat Ace, his entire ambition for targetting Luffy will be quenched.

How so? If Blackbeard wants to become a shichibukai he's gonna need all the rep he can get... Defeating Luffy on top of beating Ace would only help his chances... not to mention some of Blackbeard actions went unnoticed, such as toppling Drum kingdom...

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Seriously guys, don't trust a guy with a Swastika in his flag. Can't have any more foreshadowing than that.

The symbol on Whitebeard's flag is a Manji, different apperence and meaning... mistaking it for a swastika is quite common... So common in fact that Oda seems to have changed Whitebeard's flag to a cross in order to break that assumption...